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I cant understand the wording of the description of item 1 in the table under BMI1, The reference uses the same wording, although it does not make sense Matthias291999 (talk) 01:14, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The description of ANDN? Or the comment about about CPUID? Carewolf (talk) 11:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Parallel bit deposit and extract examples

All these illustrate is simple right and left shifts, which is NOT what these instructions do. (yes, in the reductio ad absurdum case, they can can do a shift, but then why do we need them?). It's actually misleading, if the reader assumes this is all they can do. It's bad enough to just delete the examples. I don't think the editor who constructed them (that's why there's no citation) understood the operators. It's nominally WP:OR, though in construction of self-evident examples, we sometimes have to allow a little liberty. I'd feel better if the examples were taken from published material. Sbalfour (talk) 14:49, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]